Born and raised in Calgary, Adora Nwofor is a comedian, a stylist, an activist, an anthropologist, a mom, and the host of Calgary Art Development’s Living a Creative Life web series. Her mother is Jamaican, and her father is Igbo.
www.youtube.com/@livingacreativelifecalgary
EDIT:
A response to the prompt:
Respecting African and Indigenous ways of knowing and being as a jump-off point for intercultural understanding; what metaphors of leadership, found in nature and in our origin stories can be applied and translated into effective and appropriate leadership structures?
Table of contents:
00:00 – 01:45 – Intro
01:45 – 02:52 – Seeking/finding, solutions without pathways
02:52 – 03:17 – Are the solutions desirable?
03:17 – 03:45 – Basic needs, outcome or interesting art?
03:45 – 04:28 – Calculated scarcity reduces creativity
04:28 – 05:04 – Igbo art is about cultural practices
05:04 – 08:16 – What does a leader look like in the creation of art? Two examples.
08:16 – 10:58 – “Default neutral human” is a fallacy, context is necessary for connection, audiences may be seeking transformation
10:58 – 12:40 – What does leadership look like? How would people who are not that “typical leadership” navigate [art] spaces?
12:40 – 13:41 – Theory and practice – What aspects of the theory can be reflected in the structure? What changes are needed?
13:41 – 14:16 – Leadership trust for artists
14:16 – 16:09 – Are we matching leaders with appropriate projects? Igbo community roles
16:09 – 18:30 – Igbo role of the Ada (first daughter) – based on the needs of the village, conversations. Role of leadership to make adjustments in decisions
18:30 – 19:22 – Leadership as part of process vs hierarchy
19:22 – 20:22 – Multiple mentors and perspectives
20:22 – 21:07 – ALP is primed for multiple forms of leadership
21:07 – 21:38 – Refocus and re-Indigenise
21:30 – 21:52 – Outro
